On the Record
Field notes on making regulated operations legible, governable, and ready for AI — from the team building Foundation at Trucast. Occasional, and no filler.
August 17, 2026
The autonomy dial measures the wrong thing
Agent strategy keeps arriving as a question of how much autonomy to grant. Autonomy sets the control expectation. Attribution is how you meet it.
August 17, 2026
The register describes a firm that no longer exists
Third-party risk is captured point-in-time and consumed as if it were current. Pointing AI at it does not fix that. It makes the staleness fluent.
August 17, 2026
The copy is the risk
Most AI programs in regulated firms open by copying data somewhere a model can reach it. That copy is a second system of record, and it inherits every obligation of the first.